Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-02

| ~ Ia. sugar &Ou NV Sa -
mart nreIerred by ID. NJ. Osborne Co..
and tried in the circuit court, the Jury
brought in u verdict OF acauittal,
The Milvaukee a. st. Paul has raised
| tha salaries of it's ticket agents at coupe
| offices because Of the cutting OH OF COM
,nissiona NV the Eastern lines. Thos Tor
merly receiving $75 per month no" get
$3.50. !,
Gov. Ross OF Texas has offered q reward
of $500 for the arrest and conyictlon Oh
each OF the train robbers D partlelPateu
in the affair at Mcneil station. Ihlrteon
robbers arc known to have been engaged
ia the attack.
John MullaIy, a stakeholder OF tho Ma
tionaI Consumers Meat company, at New
York appIied for an injunction restraining
the MARQUIS de Mores from disposing OF
the property OF the concern. The inlunc-
ton was denied.
Fxnlorers who arrived at Duluth from the
VermilIion country, east OF Tower, repors
the forest fires as growing worse. n goou
many camps have been destroyed and ~
is feared that several explorers have peen
caught in the flames.
transactions in the coffee exchanges 0,
late have been enormous. The unasnal
| degree OF interest manifested IN New iorA
has been caused by the speculative CON
\ G1llOn y Wv NhH
is likely to increase.
The Canadian Pacific secured an entrance
into Chicago through IN agreement WIN
President LedyaId, OF the Michigan zen
trail. Vice President Van Horn, oil the
Canadian Pacific, is in the city arranging
other details for carrying out the scheme.
In walle township, a few miles from
| Grand Forks, OAK, lighting struck the
barn OF a farmer named Dickenson, kllllng
a COW and pair OF oxen. Tho barn ana
house, q short way distant, were burned
to tho ground. Loss $4,000, with small
income.
F~ourth-elass postnasters appointed:
Minnesota: Winnipeg Junction, +. ).
| Rerp. Montana: Corvallis, II. X. Kern. Da-
kota: Haskins, T. J. Lamnnyon;J Jewell, a.
A. Linn. Iowa; Wood, I. Bridell. Post.
] office Observation-Disclosures Ivy, Ran
diyohi county.
Surgeon General Hamilton, oithe marine
! bospital service, says that although yellow
fever exists at Key West, Fla, the situa
ton is not sufficiently grave to demand
governmental Interference. The health oil
fcers at Key West, he says are iuily able
to prevent the disease spreading.
Edmund Won lilly, professor OF Ian
puages at G~astman's College, n. " com
| mitted suicide. He left a note requesting
4 L0tlL lis DOuI bI
Tilly was an officer in the Austrian army
and was decorated for bravery in battle.
| No cause is known for the suicide.
The Visible supply OF wheatin the United
| States and Canada decreased l,4oO,Oo0
bushels during the past week. corn decreased
$50. 900 bushels, oats decreased e4,ooo
bushels, and barley decreased 81 Doc bus
hels. Rye increased 10, 600 bushels. The
stock of wheat on hand 10 43,0lS,ooo
bushels.
The President appointed Commodore ID.
B. Harmony, w. A Wallace, OF New York;
II. S. Van Eaton, OF Mississippi; Asa Nor.
gan, OF Arkansas; Thomas A. Logan, oil
| Ohio, and Prof. ID. C. Gilman, of John 5.
Hopkins University, as members oil the
board OF visitors to the naval academy at
Annapolis.
With the exception OF northern Wiscon-
sin, west OF Hurley and down on the Goge-
big range, n distance of fifty miles, the fires
are abating. In that territory they are
doing great damage in pine and hardwood
lauds. Ironwood ia not burned ordamaged.
The total insurance in the Lake Linden
fire was 1897 900.
Pensions have been issued as follows:
Observation-Disclosures, j. Z. Lemon, Eau
| Claire; j. S. Whitaker. Wilton; j.. Hughart,
/ HardeevilIe; S. G. Miles, Prairee Farm; j..
Brahier, Marion; L. ID. VIM, Prescott; j.
Anderle, Clifton: w. A. lei RESTORATION
and increased, DaIles. Dakota-Increased.
K. d. Ellsworth, Raymond.
A heavy thunderstorm passed over West
port, Oak. The grading campo of ohm Coop
err on the Aberdeen, Bismarck IL Northwes-
teri. railroad was struck by lightning, in
stantly killing two laborers-Peter Nelson,
who lived between Leola and Westport,
and Charles Curtey OF Long Lake Both
Sav,ral athn.
parties in the camp were injured but none
seriously.
In accordance with the orders of the war
department, Gen. Crook has ordered Com
pany X, Ninth cavalry (eoioredl, to Chev-
enne, and placed them under the direction
of the interior department or land officials
| for the purpose OF enforcing an order to
tear down fences in public domains in Wy
oming. Gen. Crook says: "Tdon't anticipate
any trouble. Wyoming eattlemen are not
fools, and will not oppose the government.
Capt. L. w. Cole ook a party OF friends,
composed OF D.. g. Stark, Geo. Wise, Mar
ion Trip, Clarence Blood and Fred Cole. oil
Petoskey, Geo. NJ. Freeman, OF Milwaukee,
and Henry Blont, OF Chicago out for a
sail on Traverse by Mich. The yacht was
struck by a squall and capsized, throwing
the party into the bay. The following
were drowned: ID. G. Stark, George Wise,
Capt. Cole, Fred Cole, Marion Trip. Capt.
Coles body was recovered.
Andrew Springer of Illinois was lynohed
at Powhatton, Ark. for an outrage com.
mitted on Mrs. Montgomery recently.
Springer was dragged out of jail with a
rope around his neck, and made n desper.
ate fight for life. It required two or three
men to hold him. He asked the moi to
shoot him. but the request was refused.
He was dragged a short distance from tho
jail and hanged to q tree, his body after.
ward beng riddled with bullets.
There is now on hand the full amount
for the completion OF the Minneapolis
postofiice building. the total cost OF which
will be 1892, 514.56. OF this, however,
there was expended for the site So, 5l4.56.
Although all Of the required money is avail.
able, this is moi among the buildings set
down for completion during the year by
the supervising architect. THERE'S, though,
over 5000, 600 to carry on buildings, out
side OF existing contract liabilities.
The following promotions in the Invent.
ieth Infantry are announced: First Lieut.,
John A. Manley, Company G, to be cap
tain OF Company ID. vice Bradley, deeeas.
ed; Second Lieut.. James A. Irons, Com.
pany b, to be first lieutenant Company G.
Lieut.. Irons will proceed to Camp Poplar
/ River to join the company to which he has
| bOCh Napbs Aldulty l5 EThuItu
thirty days leave, after which he will as.
sumo command OF his company at Fort
Maginnis.
A Dublin dispatch says that Edmund
Ieary, member OF parliament, speaking at
the National league meeting there said:
IL Lord Lansdowne desired fair play for
0'Brien, the latter would not have been
interfered with in Canada. The men who
tempted OBrien's life believed they were do.
ing Lord Transformers work. 0'Brieu's ae.
cusations could not be retuted on the Mat.
form, and were therefore answered with
bullets. II 0'Brien should he killed his
blood would be on Transformers head.
Before the interstate commits.
sion William Brown, in behalf of the Chi.
cago & Alton Railroad filed
charges a~gaingt the Pennsylvania Railroad
Tor violation of the third section OF the act.
He charges principally that the PennsyL.
yania company had unlawfully given pref.
erence and advantages to the Chicago, Bur.
lington d Quincy in the interchange OF pass
enger traffic to Chicago, and denies to the
Chicago & Alton reasonable facilities for
the interchange OF passenger traffic.
The proceedings in the court martial
case OF Lieut.. Wilcox, Seventh cavalry.
who was recently tried at Fort Smelling,
on charges Of absence without Leave and
of duplicating his pay accounts, have
reached the reviewing authorities at Wash.
ington, which means, OF course, that the
sentence is dismissal. IL is said that thu
court accompanied their verdict with n
recommendation for mercy, but those ac-
quainted with the facts in the case have
little hope OF clemency ut the hands of the
president.
The war department has issued the fol-
lowing order; By direction OF the secre-
tary OF war general orders No. 40 OF 1883,
is revoked, to take effect June 80, and
therefore all work necessary for the care,
preservation aud repair OF ordidanco and
store at forts and in the hands OF troops
IS declared to be the legitimate duty OF the